Initializing Interface Crash

This crash is annoying. I had been using Max/msp for awhile without a hitch and then one day I open up Max on my Windows XP comp and while "initializing interface" a popup message goes up saying that "Max/Msp has crashed! Would you like to save a diagnostic file?" I searched the mail list and what things I found didn’t seem to have an answer (tried reinstall, waited a long time (30 min) for max to try and load but failed, and I’m not sure of where my prefrences folder is (I checked both the Cycling ’74 folder and the Common files folder and neither of them had a ‘prefrences’ folder.) Any insight on this would be wonderful. Oh and by the way the runtime version does open so this may be some sort of an ‘aliasing’ (don’t know what that means) problem.

Quote: Andross wrote on Tue, 20 June 2006 19:37
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> This crash is annoying. I had been using Max/msp for awhile without a hitch and then one day I open up Max on my Windows XP comp and while "initializing interface" a popup message goes up saying that "Max/Msp has crashed! Would you like to save a diagnostic file?" I searched the mail list and what things I found didn’t seem to have an answer (tried reinstall, waited a long time (30 min) for max to try and load but failed, and I’m not sure of where my prefrences folder is (I checked both the Cycling ’74 folder and the Common files folder and neither of them had a ‘prefrences’ folder.) Any insight on this would be wonderful. Oh and by the way the runtime version does open so this may be some sort of an ‘aliasing’ (don’t know what that means) problem.
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Sorry about the bump, won’t happen again. But there is no ‘Application data folder’ as said by ‘thijskoerselman@gmail’ in my documents folder….can I assume you mean the ‘Program FilesCommon FilesCycling ’74’ folder? But even then, I see no mention of prefrences in that folder… just some other folders like ad, externals, init, etc.

Oh YES YES YES!! Deleting that prefrences folder worked and now I may max again!….but just as an aside, how can I prevent this from happening cause I don’t remember changing any search path or anything though I could be wrong….